Thom, pleeeease, you are being fed disinformation on HIV/AIDS issue. Please have someone you trust investigate the dissident position that it's impossible for a retrovirus (HIV) to cause the type of immunodeficient states that are called AIDS. Thank you - you're too intelligent to pass along the pseudoscience of the HIV experts..

One world living under entirely open borders and one legal system with an open market I think can be either a peaceful and fair world or an oppresive and war torn world. What it comes down to is the baseline for the government, the standards for equality and civil and economic justice. I doubt that a world ran by a corrupt government is going to be anything but a horror, and I can't think of any government that is uncorruptable.

Perhaps the biggest problem to one world is the market place. The market thrives off of competition, and competition leads to struggles.

How would this be for an anti-Romney campaign: Would you have to do much voting and issue research to prove that Romney has a more liberal record than Obama?

"Romney. Farther Left than Obama"

The olde political diagram was from left to right:

Radical - Liberal - Moderate - Conservative - Reactionary.

If this was a semi-circle (top half of a clock), Obama and Clinton would exist at about 1 o'clock (a little to the right of centrist). Romney's political record might be at around 11 o'clock (a little to the left of centrist). Romney's political waffling rhetoric will try to put him in the reactionary zone..2 - 2:30.

Thom, one thing that I'd like to add on your conversation about guns at the GOP convention. Think about the thinking that the attendees at the convetion should be able to carry guns because they may meet "occupy" protesters. What they're implying is that the occupiers clearly need to be eliminated, that they are essentially NOT AMERICANS!

You need to know this... Support for Donald Trump's campaign is still growing nationally, and in early primary states, but he's not just gaining support in early primary states. A new poll from Florida shows that Trump is leading Jeb by 6 percentage points - and he's leading Rubio by 16 points.

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